was born in 1963 and worked as an English teacher at Wolverhampton Grammar School until the end of the autumn 2012. His daughter, Kathy Lovesey, was born in 1960, and now lives with her family in Greenwich, Connecticut. Awards Peter Lovesey has won awards for his fiction, including Gold and Silver Daggers from the British Crime Writers' Association, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and first place in the Mystery Writers of America's 50th Anniversary Short Story Contest. In 2016, the UK's Detection Club published Motives for Murder (US: Crippen & Landru, UK: Sphere) to recognise Lovesey's 80th birthday. In 2019, he was recognised by the Bouchercon Convention in Dallas for Lifetime Achievement. Bibliography Lovesey's novels and stories mainly fall into the category of entertaining puzzlers in the "Golden Age" tradition of mystery writing. Most of Peter Lovesey's writing has been done under his own name. However, he did write three novels under the pen name Peter Lear. Sergeant Cribb novels Novels featuring Victorian era detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb and his assistant Constable Thackeray. Wobble to Death (1970), The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (1971), Abracadaver (1972), Mad Hatter's Holiday (1973), Invitation to a Dynamite Party (1974), (published in the US as The Tick of Death) A Case of Spirits (1975), Swing, Swing Together (1976), Waxwork (1978), (Silver Dagger Award) Adaptations The novels were adapted into a Granada TV Series simply entitled Cribb (1979–81). The Series starred Alan Dobie as Cribb, with William Simons as Thackeray. The series is available on DVD in the UK, the US, and Canada. BBC Radio's Saturday Night Theatre adapted six of the novels: Abracadaver (1975), with Frank Windsor as Cribb & John Hollis as Thackeray. Wobble to Death (1975), with Timothy Bateson as Cribb & William Eedle as Thackeray. The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (1977), with John Rye as Cribb & John Hollis as Thackeray. A Case of Spirits (1985), with Barry Foster as Cribb & John Cater as Thackeray. Swing, Swing Together (1987), with Barry Foster as Cribb & John Cater as Thackeray. Waxwork (1987), with Brian Cox as Cribb & John Cater as Thackeray. Peter Diamond novels The Last Detective (1991), (Anthony Award) Diamond Solitaire (1992), The Summons (1995), (Silver Dagger Award) Bloodhounds (1996), (Silver Dagger Award, Macavity Award, Barry Award) Upon a Dark Night (1997), The Vault (1999), Diamond Dust (2002), The House Sitter